The OPRF Chamber is working with the Village of Oak Park to build an online directory of all local businesses. The database feeding the directory will enable better communications, planning, event promotion and other back office functions.

In a week when Suburban Unity Alliance and the Oak Park Regional Housing Center both hosted events filled to capacity with community members advocating for equity, the Chamber voted to back SUA’s “Pledge for Unity.”

Elijah Sims’ horrific death to gun violence just east of Oak Park in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood is a clarion call to action. Our own community’s fate is linked to that of those around us. Only a regional approach can help raise the standard of living for all of us.